Marshall Julius Jefferson (born September 19, 1959) is an American musician, working within the home music sub genres of Chicago home and deep home.
Typically referred to as the daddy of home music, Jefferson was initially a file producer within the Common Recording Studios in Chicago, the place he met the proprietor of Trax Information, Larry Sherman. Jefferson’s 1986 single for Trax, “Transfer Your Physique“, the primary home music to make use of piano, was a well-liked and influential music within the style.
Through the late-Eighties heyday of home music, he recorded solo and collaborative materials underneath numerous names akin to Virgo, Jungle Wonz, Reality, and On the Home. Jefferson’s deep home productions embrace songs by CeCe Rogers and Sterling Void, and Ten Metropolis‘s first two albums.
In March 1987, the British music journal NME reported that Jefferson and Frankie Knuckles have been within the UK for the primary house-music tour.
“Transfer Your Physique”
appeared within the online game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, enjoying on house-music radio station SF-UR. This music additionally appeared in Michael Winterbottom‘s movie 24 Hour Celebration Individuals and within the 1991 documentary movie Paris Is Burning.
Jefferson took a break from music in 1990, then returned to DJing in 1993. He moved to Billericay in Essex the place he had a five-year residency with the Tribal Gathering and Large Love occasions.
Jefferson now lives in Manchester, England and launched a remixed model of “Transfer Your Physique” (credited to Marshall Jefferson x Solardo, with the latter being a Mancunian manufacturing duo made up of Mark Richards & James Eliot) in 2019. The remix was licensed Silver by the British Phonographic Business (BPI) in 2023.
In 2021, he teamed up once more with Byron Stingily to launch “Be Free”, the primary single in 25 years to be credited to Stingily’s home music group Ten Metropolis.
Jefferson is featured in Episode 3 of the 2024 PBS sequence Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution.
